I think overall staff does a really good job at pretty much everything. Most members of staff are diligent, kind, helpful, and receptive to talking like adults. This is great and In my honest opinion Chaos Staff is probably the most successful and least tyrannical staff I've ever experienced on a forum, much less a Roleplaying Board.
However, from my point of view there are several factors that every once in a while make me shake my head. None of them are really critical or board breaking, but they are issues that tend to confound me and some others I've discussed it with.
Glut: There are currently Fifteen members of staff including Admins and RPJ's. I don't know if this is too many or too little or whatever, but I do know that seemingly about half of those fifteen staff members don't actually do anything. Obviously I'm not all that privy to what goes on behind the scenes, but I can honestly say that at least to me it appears that a good portion of staff members don't actually do anything all. Maybe this is because certain members of staff just have 'assigned' places like Factory or Codex and thus appear more, but I don't think thats true since Factory and Codex RPJ's and Admins still actually do other stuff like judge invasions and update the map. Perhaps staff could do an assessment of itself to see who is actually doing what and how well, then prove me wrong.
Communication: In my experience Staff generally does a poor job on communicating why they're doing something. I don't mean this in regards to big decisions(like the new proposed Rules) but in general the smaller decisions that effect members. Sometimes we're simply told 'This is how it is, deal with it'. That's not how you treat adults, that's how you treat children in a daycare. A good example would be the invasion of Serenno, it has been a little under two weeks since the invasion ended and over a week since the RPJ's last contacted the FO's, both of whom are left wondering if/when the judging is even going on or what is happening. Similar incidents have happened in the past with other invasions and there have been smaller reports where I know for a fact members were displeased by the suddenness of a ruling without clear explanation of why. I think Staff really needs to consider explaining their actions better, even with the little things.
Following Your Own Rules: Honestly this is mostly directed at yourself Tefka, you have a habit of not following the rules that you set out for this board. I realize that you own and founded this place, but when you do something and then just tell the members it effected "This is how it is" it feels incredibly shitty to those members and other people watching. In the end I know you mostly do not do this out of malice, but rather in a conscious effort to preserve the board, but I feel it has at times embittered and scorned members.
